Author Archives: rabbisteinman

Blogosphere, I am going to be away for two weeks and am taking a vacation from blogging. See you on the other side…

You might not be aware (and ‘you’ would definitely not be living in Toronto if this is the case) that the G20 begins this coming weekend.  All of downtown Toronto has been transformed into a security zone, it seems.  Last … Continue reading →

And by Venice I mean Italy not California.  An easy thing to confuse. When I was a first-year student at Brandeis I took this awesome class called, “Merchants, Moneylenders and the Ghetti of Venice” taught by Dr. Benjamin Ravid who … Continue reading →

With the World Cup on in the background, I just read of the passing of Manute Bol.  You can read an obituary, here.  I don’t know much about Bol beyond the basketball court but it seems after his career in … Continue reading →

Recently, I came across this article.  Conversions in Israel are a major issue not only for the Jews living there, for the entire Jewish people.  At the time of the founding of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion made an … Continue reading →

What would bring multiple generations of community together, embed Jewish values, and enable social justice values in one place?  Food, food access, healthy food choices, and the environment are clear issues in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).  Temple Sinai is … Continue reading →

Last week I was completely inspired to write a sermon after watching Magic & Bird, an incredible documentary that traces the rivalry between these two players from their earliest days playing against one another in the NCAA finals.  These two … Continue reading →

Though it isn’t as big of a deal in North America as pretty much anywhere else, it is world cup time!  The US team isn’t a favorite and the Canadian team didn’t even qualify.  Here are 2 interesting articles from … Continue reading →

These are the words of Yehudah haLevi and these days I confess I am thinking even more about Israel and reminiscing (I’ve quoted the poem at the end of this post). Then I saw this editorial in the NYT. Israel … Continue reading →

Because it might make you regurgitate. Israeli Women’s Prayers Hit Reactionary Wall By Michele Chabin WeNews correspondent Wednesday, June 9, 2010 A woman wearing tefillin touches the Western Wall. Women in Israel are prohibited from wearing tefillin and prayer shawls … Continue reading →